June 29, 2017Charlie Gard’s Parents ‘denied wish to take son home to die’by Policehour.co.ukUK: The Parents of Charlie Gard have said that they have had their final wish denied to be able to take their son home to die.Chris Gard and Connie Yates from West London have said they wanted to take 10-month-old Charlie who suffers a rare genetic condition and has brain damage to be allowed to take him home to die.They have said the Great Ormond Street Hospital refused the request and the baby’s life support will be switched off on Friday.They told MailOnline “Our parental rights have been stripped away. We can’t even take our own son home to die, we have been denied that, do you not think we have been put through enough? Our final wish if it all went against us, and we have had this conversation many times, if we lose can we take our little boy home, to where he belongs, to die? And we are not allowed. We know what day our son is going to die and we don’t even get a say in what happens to him. He’s got to die in that place.Great Ormond Street Hospital has released a statement saying “As with all of our patients, we are not able to and nor will we discuss these specific details of care.“This is a very distressing situation for Charlie’s parents and all the staff involved and our focus remains with them.”

social & Academic corruption:

​Charlie Gard - treated worse than a dog -Just a week before his 1st birthday the baby was murdered by a bureaucracy that sought to establish its authority over parents. Will America follow suit with single payer, govt controlled healthcare and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

Although this story is several years old, the seriousness of the problem continues to escalate at Universities today. (Photo Source: Weebly)

November 30, 2014Fort Lauderdale Florida USA: Police Threaten to Arrest 90 Year Old Man for Feeding the Poor Whatever happened to the home of the free and land of the Brave?A World War 2 veteran is vowing to engage in civil disobedience by defying a new law that bans feeding homeless people in Fort Lauderdale despite police threatening to arrest 90-year-old Arnold Abbott.(full story)

I slept rough – the public’s contempt for homeless people is a disgraceTamsen Courtenay | Guardian

Like many other people, I watched Adrian Pinsent’s video of coffee shop staff at Waterloo station (in London, England) last week refusing to let him buy food for a man with no home and an empty stomach. A member of staff claimed that it was company policy and the rules of the station. The employee was wrong, it turned out – but the incident brought back some vivid memories for me.I recently spent several months in central London recording 30 homeless people as they chronicled their lives with great candour and humility. Much of what they talked about was their life, now, on the street. No front door key. Few possessions. Little dignity. I collected their stories and called the book Four Feet Under, because they live four feet under the rest of us.I recognised that tone of disbelief in Pinsent’s voice, as he found himself pleading to buy food for a hungry man. There was a kind of madness in the sketch. My own voice had had that same tone on the very first day of my travels among the homeless. I was on the Strand on a chilly October dawn and went into a McDonald’s to buy several coffees, as I’d seen a group of young men waking up on the pavement outside and thought they could use a hot drink. I ended up in a huge argument (I didn’t have Pinsent’s restraint) with the two security officers – complete with earpieces like the Men in Black – who would not let me make the purchase. “It only encourages them,” they told me. Encourages them to what? I was livid and within no time I too was barred from the premises.That was the first of many examples I witnessed of the treatment homeless people receive on a daily basis. Why is this so? Perhaps we are now such a fractured and injured society that even the weak will attack the weaker, and people with much cannot endure the sight of those with nothing. Is it a twisted form of shame when we know the number of children who are homeless or in temporary accomodation has risen by nearly 40% in the last three years? The man Pinsent was trying to help would not have been shocked at all. He would have seen it and endured it many times before. (full article)

December 3, 2015Hawaii Law Student shocked to find her father living on the streetBBC MagazineDiana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an effort to save him, she turned her camera on him. (full story)